I\u2019d just like to ask, why did you give your aunt a LifeBook?<\/h3>\n
That\u2019s a good question; I gave my aunt a LifeBook because I thought it was good way to get her involved in something quite cerebral or cognitive and I\u2019m finding that it actually helps and inspires her day-to-day, so it was not only to keep her feeling vibrant but also to record her life.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m interested to know why you think your aunt is so amazing?<\/h3>\n
How long have we got for that kind of question? My auntie is Nigerian and she\u2019s lived through the\u00a0civil war of Nigeria<\/a>\u00a0in the 1960s at which time she was Miss Nigeria and I suppose our auntie\u2019s a bit of a\u00a0Moira Stewart<\/a>, as she was a newscaster for 30 years in Nigeria. She also dated certain presidents, saw overthrows and underthrows through our whole Nigerian society, culture and history. She knows a little bit about everyone and I felt it was so nice that we had such a treasure in our own family that we could maybe historically write about and give everyone a piece of this in a way.<\/p>\n They do, my sisters know. I\u2019ve got two sisters, of which one is a journalist and very interested in the whole package of LifeBook. I\u2019m going to Nigeria this evening, funnily enough, and I\u2019ll be seeing a lot more of the family and I know that my auntie\u2019s sister (not my mother who passed away unfortunately 20 years ago, but my auntie\u2019s other sister) was so excited about it that I think she\u2019s considering it for herself.<\/p>\n LifeBook is something about accounting one\u2019s life but it\u2019s for the people around them, who are very important and a close-knit family; sometimes you don\u2019t get to talk to your mother or father about what they did, during the war or how they felt when they were growing up because you take it for granted. <\/p>\n I feel that if my mother, Ibiene Epega, was alive and had depicted her life and she was the author of it, it would have given me and my sisters, my siblings, more of an understanding of my mother and that\u2019s what I get from LifeBook. It\u2019s the question you have as a son or a daughter, or father, or mother, cousin, or brother don\u2019t ask because you don\u2019t know how to ask it and it\u2019s something that you want to know about, so it kind of brings the family together.<\/p>\n Every life story of our authors is fascinating and provides an important insight into each family\u2019s history. LifeBook is proud to have been involved in the family autobiography of Julie Coker, former Nigerian television broadcaster and founder of the Richard Coker Foundation charity supporting anemia research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Life Story of Baba\u2019s Auntie \u2013 Julie Coker (Broadcaster)","_seopress_titles_desc":"LifeBook is something about accounting one's life but it's for the people around them, who are very important and a close-knit family.","_seopress_robots_index":"","content-type":"","_metasync_otto_title":"","_metasync_otto_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Life Story of Baba\u2019s Auntie \u2013 Julie Coker (Broadcaster)","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"LifeBook is something about accounting one's life but it's for the people around them, who are very important and a close-knit family.","footnotes":""},"categories":[134,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authorstestimonials","category-write-my-life-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Apart from your aunt who\u2019s the author of her own story and yourself, does anybody else in the family know about this venture?<\/h3>\n
How would it have been if LifeBook had been around when your mother had been alive?<\/h3>\n
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\nBabatunde Jallah Epaga, LifeBook Gifter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"